When coL was playing with Fear standin, their gameplan was literally pick TB/Spec for fear and hope he 1v9s while 4 players have 0 impact and feed randomly. I can see why he slammed them pretty hard when he was casting with Grant and Mason.

I have a massive desk so the stand isn't an issue, I'm glad the p has swivel, I can't imagine how normal x34 owners live without it. And I agree about it being perfect, I had no idea how good ultrawide and high refresh rate were until I got to experience them myself, it is a game changer.

Yeah, I was a little worried about that but it turns out this gpu can handle it pretty well for the games I play. All of the mobas I play run at 120fps or more just fine at maxed out settings (have to run dota in directx9 or it crashes for some reason), and doom 2016 was averaging a little over 100fps at max settings. Everything else I've tried has had black bars, but 1440p by itself is still pretty nice and my gpu can easily handle it.

The worst problems I had were related to me cheaping out on the psu actually (I had a 550W psu, had to upgrade to an 850W because my gpu was straining the psu and causing stability problems). After the upgrade I've basically been running fine.

They didn't pay the company money for the product, because when their order was cancelled their money was refunded.

People paid a company money for a product the company didn't have, before the company could tell those people they didn't have it anymore. It's like walking up to a taco truck getting slammed with customers, shouting your order to the guys inside, and throwing your money at the wall. If they're out of chicken when some dude goes to scoop up your quarters, they're just going to give you money back for the chicken taco and apologize. They didn't do you a dirty.

It's more like lining up at a taco truck, putting in your order, then while you're waiting they tell you that they ran out of something and can't take your order and refund you the money.

While there was nothing else they could do in that situation (other than increasing supply), it still looks very bad on the company to be doing that. You had an expectation to receive something and didn't receive it, even if you got your money back it looks bad.

There's no strict definition of when a DQ happens in terms of what you do in game. For it to be a DQ, it has to be cheating, and the definition of cheating in the context of MTG requires there to be intent.

So in this case, it wasn't necessarily just that he didn't call a judge immediately. When these things happen, they talk to the players to try and determine what happened. That's what they mean by: "an investigation was conducted." So they talked to him and after deliberation, the judges decided they had good reason to believe he had intentionally waited. That could have just been because it wasn't immediate, but it also could have been based on the things he said during the investigation. We'll never know since WotC doesn't go into detail about the investigations for liability reasons.

I should note that this is just for cheating DQs, there are also DQs for various kinds of unsportsmanlike conduct which do not require an investigation. If a judge sees you hit someone you're just thrown out, etc etc.

I'm not sure about that, while this does hit more targets than pulse for less mana, the added benefit of acting as a pseudo sweeper for tokens has been very useful.

I'm hesitant to start cutting a lot of the specific 1-of removal spells for this because while it's very versatile, many times you will be doing the same thing as the other removal spells, but also giving your opponent a land.

We'll see in practice how well this card performs and which removal spells end up being replacable.

I remember Apollo back from SC2. Someone once talked about his insane preparation before every casting gig he had (I think it might have been Day9). Basically Apollo had this huge folder with data he had written down about every player and their teams. The builds they would like to open with and what their general build order was, when they decided to attack the opponent and how they would do it.

Apollo would sit on a couch or chair and read through his notes before every cast he would do. The guy is to this day probably the best analytical caster in my opinion.

Yeah, back in the day of old online tournaments, I remember LD and co talking about similar things, they would have notes on drafts and whatnot from past matches and datdota all ready so they could profile teams during the draft and be aware of certain things ingame. Was really cool to see.